14 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 8, 2024
Constanza v. Sparta Insurance Company (2024)
Erica Dandry Constanza and Monica Dandry Haller sued Avondale (Huntington Ingalls), Hopeman Brothers and other companies in Louisiana state court. They said Michael P. Dandry, Jr. was exposed to asbestos while working at Avondale for about two and a…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 22, 2019 · in the opinion
Lamson v. Georgia-Pacific LLC (2019)
…General Electric ("GE"), denied manufacturing any turbines used at the jobsites, and the estate failed to rebut this assertion. Id. at 575. While GE admitted that a "small percentage" of electrical wires and cables contained a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 4, 2020
Gaddy v. Taylor Seidenbach, Inc. (2020)
…granted Ethyl Corporation's motion for remittitur, cutting the verdict to $3,250,661.45 ($3,000,000 general damages plus medical expenses) unless Plaintiffs elect a new trial, and denied Ethyl's new-trial and…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 14, 2020
Adams v. Ethyl Corporation (2020)
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the judgment for the Gaddy children against Ethyl Corporation, including the reduction of general damages to $3,000,000, and rejected both Ethyl's challenges and the plaintiffs' challenge to the jury…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 31, 2020
Marsh v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated (2020)
…and ports who alleges the defendant supplied asbestos products to those sites has shown prima facie personal jurisdiction and stated a plausible products liability claim under general maritime law (Restatement (Second) of Torts 402A). Design Defect…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 4, 2020
Gaddy v. Taylor Seidenbach, Inc. (2020)
…a jury found Ethyl, International Paper and Owens-Illinois liable. It awarded $7.5 million in general damages plus $250,661.45 in medical expenses. Judgment against Ethyl was $2,583,553.82, its share after…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · July 14, 1998 · in the opinion
In re Ethyl Corp. (1998)
…184, 133 L.Ed.2d 122 (1995); see also Friendly, Federal Jurisdiction: A General View 120 (1973) (condemning "blackmail settlements"), quoted in In re Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc., 51 F.3d at 1298. On the other…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 25, 2017 · in the opinion
All Craft Fabricators, Inc. v. Atc Assoc., Inc. (2017)
…asbestos event occurred at the facility whereby wooden doors and panels from the United Nations construction project were ordered by the owner and general contractor to be reworked and finished by All Craft at the facility…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 1, 2014 · in the opinion
Smith v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014)
…at 3. "In general, a premises owner has a duty of exercising reasonable care for the safety of persons on its premises and a duty of not exposing such persons to unreasonable risks of injury or…
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Court case · Louisiana Supreme Court · September 4, 2002 · in the opinion
Austin v. Abney Mills, Inc. (2002)
…2d at 1272, n. 12. As we noted in Walls, this general rule is codified in La. Civ.Code art. 6, which also provides the exceptions thereto: In the absence of contrary legislative expression, substantive laws…
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Court case · Wisconsin Court of Appeals · September 25, 2001 · in the opinion
International Paper Co. v. Labour & Indus. Rev. Com'n (2001)
…9. In this case, neither party specifically addresses whether and to what extent these four factors have been established. Our general review of the case suggests that factors one, three and four are satisfied. Furthermore, it…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 11, 2015 · in the opinion
Smith v. Union Carbide Corporation (2015)
…509 U.S. at 596. As a general rule, questions relating to the basis and sources of an expert's opinion rather than its admissibility should be left for the jury's consideration. United States v…
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Court case · Wisconsin Court of Appeals · July 3, 2012 · in the opinion
Calewarts v. CR Meyer and Sons Company (2012)
…85 N.W.2d 772 (1957). As a general rule, an owner "is deemed to have constructive notice of a defect or unsafe condition when that defect or condition has existed a long enough time for…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma · July 30, 2014 · in the opinion
Bootenhoff v. Hormel Foods Corporation (2014)
…the place of conduct factor does not favor one state over another because the alleged conduct is spread over multiple states. See, e.g, Patten v. General Motors Corp., Chevrolet Motor Div., 699 F. Supp. 1500…